top 50% hacker news stories for 2019-05-15

I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page

https://idiallo.com/blog/18000-dollars-static-web-page

7 years ago

PHP in 2019

https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2019

7 years ago

Things to use in Python 3

https://datawhatnow.com/things-you-are-probably-not-using-in-python-3-but-should/

7 years ago

Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time

https://alexwlchan.net/2019/05/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-unix-time/

7 years ago

Firms That Promised Ransomware Decryption Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

https://features.propublica.org/ransomware/ransomware-attack-data-recovery-firms-paying-hackers/

7 years ago

John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/master/by_day/johnc_plan_19960802.txt

7 years ago

YTMND is down for temporary maintenance

https://www.resetera.com/threads/looks-like-mid-00s-meme-factory-ytmnd-has-shut-down-for-good.116990/

7 years ago

FCC Chairman Proposes Robocall Blocking by Default

https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-proposes-robocall-blocking-default

7 years ago

A critical step to reduce climate change

https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/A-critical-step-to-reduce-climate-change?WT.mc_id=20190515000825_Energy-Storage_BG-TW&WT.tsrc=BGTW&linkId=67393850

7 years ago

Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190514_735k_fraudulently_obtained_ip_addresses_have_been_revoked/

7 years ago

My Budget – free, open-source offline cross-platform budgeting

https://github.com/reZach/my-budget

7 years ago

★ 956 JavaScript AGPL-3.0

TaiChi: Open-source computer graphics library

http://taichi.graphics/

7 years ago

Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs

https://glenmccallum.com/2019/05/14/senior-developers-rejected-jobs/

7 years ago

Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode

https://material.io/design/color/dark-theme.html

7 years ago

Four Years of Rust

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/05/15/4-Years-Of-Rust.html

7 years ago

Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK beaches: study

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/14/coca-cola-packaging-pollution-on-uk-beaches-surfers-against-sewage-study

7 years ago

WhatsApp security breach may have targeted human rights groups

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp/whatsapp-security-breach-may-have-targeted-human-rights-groups-idUSKCN1SK0SM

7 years ago

LED light can damage eyes, French health authority warns

https://news.yahoo.com/led-light-damage-eyes-health-authority-warns-002221659.html

7 years ago

U.S. blacklists Huawei

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china/u-s-blacklists-chinas-huawei-as-trade-dispute-clouds-global-outlook-idUSKCN1SL2DI

7 years ago

VMware to Acquire Bitnami

https://cloud.vmware.com/community/2019/05/15/vmware-to-acquire-bitnami/

7 years ago

EFF Wins National Security Letter Transparency Lawsuit

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/05/victory-eff-wins-national-security-letter-transparency-lawsuit

7 years ago

GKE Sandbox: Independent operating system kernel to each container

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/gke-sandbox-bring-defense-in-depth-to-your-pods

7 years ago

Tesla's solar factory is exporting most of its cells

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-solar-exclusive/exclusive-teslas-solar-factory-is-exporting-most-of-its-cells-document-idUSKCN1SL1H5

7 years ago

City residents live with mental illness at higher rates than general population

https://www.popsci.com/physical-surroundings-cities-mental-illness

7 years ago

Microsoft Patches ‘Wormable’ Flaw in Windows XP, 7 and Windows 2003

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/microsoft-patches-wormable-flaw-in-windows-xp-7-and-windows-2003/

7 years ago

Twitter’s Plan to Get People to Stop Yelling at Each Other

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/behind-twitters-plan-to-get-people-to-stop-yelling-at-each

7 years ago

Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log

https://letsencrypt.org/2019/05/15/introducing-oak-ct-log.html

7 years ago

Trump Moves to Ban Foreign Telecom Gear, Targeting Huawei and China

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/business/huawei-ban-trump.html

7 years ago

Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)

https://qz.com/969885/almost-every-speed-limit-is-too-low/

7 years ago

Sourcehut Q1 2019 financial report

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%[email protected]%3E

7 years ago

Show HN: Konstellate – An Open Source GUI to Visualize Kubernetes Applications

https://github.com/containership/konstellate

7 years ago

The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-14/the-mighty-pea-is-everybody-s-new-favorite-plant-based-protein

7 years ago

Doctors and decision fatigue

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/opinion/dont-visit-your-doctor-in-the-afternoon.html

7 years ago

Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/389297/tech-companies-and-17-govts-sign-up-to-christchurch-call

7 years ago

Microsoft open sources code to give any app Bing-like intelligence

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/05/microsoft-open-sources-algorithm-that-gives-bing-some-of-its-smarts/

7 years ago

Cambridge scientists create living organism with redesigned DNA

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/15/cambridge-scientists-create-worlds-first-living-organism-with-fully-redesigned-dna

7 years ago

SanDisk 1-terabyte microSD card is now available

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/sandisk-1-tb-microsd-card,news-30079.html

7 years ago

Mind-controlled hearing aid allows the wearer to focus on particular voices

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/15/scientists-create-mind-controlled-hearing-aid

7 years ago

Mass grave in Poland embodies the violent beginning of the Bronze Age

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/mass-grave-in-poland-embodies-the-violent-beginning-of-the-bronze-age/

7 years ago

A Report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/05/a-report-from-the-amp-advisory-committee-meeting/

7 years ago

Uber IPO underwriter so certain IPO was overpriced they shorted it themselves

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/05/uber-ipo-underwriter-morgan-stanley-was-so-certain-that-it-overpriced-the-uber-ipo-it-shorted-uber-shares-right-before-the-ipo/

7 years ago

Amazon can't yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-cant-yet-completely-delete-alexa-voice-transcriptions/

7 years ago

Mailchimp changes definition of “audience” to include unsubscribed emails

https://twitter.com/Evanish/status/1128377802988892160

7 years ago

Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs

https://web.archive.org/web/20190514154623/https://glenmccallum.com/2019/05/14/senior-developers-rejected-jobs/

7 years ago

Show HN: Hacker News Front Page Trends

https://toddwschneider.com/dashboards/hacker-news-trends/

7 years ago

Bitset Decoding on Apple’s A12

https://lemire.me/blog/2019/05/15/bitset-decoding-on-apples-a12/

7 years ago

ENIAC Operating Manual (1946) [pdf]

https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_univOfPennperatingManualJun46_7248165

7 years ago

The global trade in junk and trash

https://discardstudies.com/2019/05/06/adam-minter-how-things-flow/

7 years ago

Mysterious groups of archaea stir debate about the origin of complex creatures

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01496-w

7 years ago

Security Issue with Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Titan Security Keys

https://security.googleblog.com/2019/05/titan-keys-update.html

7 years ago

Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/14/national/japan-plans-create-10-billion-14-digit-phone-numbers-5g-era-approaching/

7 years ago

The Fusion Reactor Next Door

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/business/fusion-energy-climate-change.html

7 years ago

Who’s at risk for obsessive healthy eating? Toronto research sheds light

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/who-s-at-risk-for-obsessive-healthy-eating-toronto-research-sheds-light-1.4421908

7 years ago